Gil Sandler's Baltimore Stories

August 12, 1955: There's traffic and chaos outside of Gordons, a popular crab carryout at Orleans Street and Patterson Park Ave. It's a typical summer…

On an afternoon in 1946, a small crowd of spectators were gathered in front of a broken down, boarded up row house on tiny Tyson street, between Park and…

The Inner Harbor along the Light Street quay on the soft spring evening of April 12, 1976, was alive with crowds and music. More than 500 of Baltimore’s…

On the Saturday afternoon of July 25, 1943, something unusual was going on in Baltimore’s Penn station on Charles Street just above Mt. Royal. In those…

A story about how Rivers Chambers and his band changed a country western lament to keep the party going.

Gil tells us about what led up to the 'opening' of the Orleans Street Viaduct in 1935.

On the summer night of July 11, 1962 at the Republican National Convention in Chicago, those in the hall and millions watching television saw and heard…

Gil tells us how our beloved crab could've been second fiddle to another civic symbol: the banana.

Gil remembers a complete surrender of the Orioles management to the neighborhood boys of Baltimore.In the 1930s, so many kids were "hooking in" to the old…

Baltimore, 1940: In the gym of the Jewel Box Girly Club on 'The Block,' a 'trainer' worked at his dream: teaching contenders how to box and making…